1 Know they weakness (Invite only) Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:32 pm
Sero
S-rank
Sero had progressed back into the manor. The front door left open as dead leaves and twigs would blow across the entry. After the initial hall was a grand open space with stairs spiraling up on either side. However in the center of them was another door. Straight ahead as with everything else. If he progressed through the door as soon as he was clear it would creak closed behind him plunging him into a dim light. Grey and empty within by appearance but he would know better. He would be able to feel others about the manor and grounds. If he concentrated he might even be able to tell the majority of them were stronger than himself. However the source was straight ahead. Through the next open doorway beckoning him forth. If he crossed that gate as well he would enter into the throne room. Lit by painted windows from the outside. Dancing colors across the stone floors and walls from windows depicting war. A large empty floor with seats along either side and at the head of it a throne. The mark of the osada on the cloth draped over it. The mark of the Unmei recently added into the front of the arm rest on the right.
It was there that Sero sat quietly. He had already sent out a pulse beckoning Chigetsu to his side when he entered the manor ahead of them. It was a simple thing. A sensation along the connection they shared bidding him come. Easily discernible that it was from the source of that connection. Now his attention was fully on the boy. Giving Chigetsu time to come to them. He would study the young Kaguya as he entered and with a shift of his hand the door would close behind him. So he had remained to train. He had intentions in mind for him involving another teacher for now but he had time to meddle with. He would wait for the boy to look to him before he would nod to the center of the room. If there had been more upkeep to this place it would have been a house fit for any lord. Still Sero would rise from his throne before approaching the center as well. Speaking as he seemed to glide rather than walk. Even missing an arm he carried himself with grace and power. It radiated from him even as he spoke in emotionless tones.
"I have a starting place in mind for you Kaguya, But for now surely you have begun to feel it. That thirst to punish another."
He would stop moving with space between them by about three meters. Quietly he would raise his right hand as a seal would seem to glow in the floor between them. Old marks of a language not taught in the academy. The glow would raise up in flickering blue flames before suddenly there would be a form tossed out of the floor itself from the center of the seal. A man in torn and blood stained pants and a one time white shirt now mostly red would collapse on the floor directly between the two. Coughing as he curled up into a ball and shivered. His eyes were sunken in and there was very little life in them. Hope had been ripped from him time and time again and now he was more husk than man. He didn't dare make any eye contact anymore. A tattoo on his neck suggested he had once been a part of a wealthy merchant family. Reduced to little more than a worm now.
"This thing here before you, decided to beat a man to death for little more than slandering his name in town. The punishment I chose at the time was suffering. He after all did leave a mother and new born without a father. However we must sate your hunger for now. How will you punish this man? A murderer for his own vanity. His fate is in your hands."
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It was there that Sero sat quietly. He had already sent out a pulse beckoning Chigetsu to his side when he entered the manor ahead of them. It was a simple thing. A sensation along the connection they shared bidding him come. Easily discernible that it was from the source of that connection. Now his attention was fully on the boy. Giving Chigetsu time to come to them. He would study the young Kaguya as he entered and with a shift of his hand the door would close behind him. So he had remained to train. He had intentions in mind for him involving another teacher for now but he had time to meddle with. He would wait for the boy to look to him before he would nod to the center of the room. If there had been more upkeep to this place it would have been a house fit for any lord. Still Sero would rise from his throne before approaching the center as well. Speaking as he seemed to glide rather than walk. Even missing an arm he carried himself with grace and power. It radiated from him even as he spoke in emotionless tones.
"I have a starting place in mind for you Kaguya, But for now surely you have begun to feel it. That thirst to punish another."
He would stop moving with space between them by about three meters. Quietly he would raise his right hand as a seal would seem to glow in the floor between them. Old marks of a language not taught in the academy. The glow would raise up in flickering blue flames before suddenly there would be a form tossed out of the floor itself from the center of the seal. A man in torn and blood stained pants and a one time white shirt now mostly red would collapse on the floor directly between the two. Coughing as he curled up into a ball and shivered. His eyes were sunken in and there was very little life in them. Hope had been ripped from him time and time again and now he was more husk than man. He didn't dare make any eye contact anymore. A tattoo on his neck suggested he had once been a part of a wealthy merchant family. Reduced to little more than a worm now.
"This thing here before you, decided to beat a man to death for little more than slandering his name in town. The punishment I chose at the time was suffering. He after all did leave a mother and new born without a father. However we must sate your hunger for now. How will you punish this man? A murderer for his own vanity. His fate is in your hands."
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